The ITX line includes relatively simple graphics cards with a democratic price tag and minimal overclocking. The main requirement for each model ― this is a reduced printed circuit board with a miniature cooling system for one cooler. Only the entry―level variant from past and current generations of NVIDIA (GTX 1050 – 1660) falls under such requirements. The massive board of the conditional RTX 2070 does not fall under these requirements from the word at all. Well, Radeon has not had anything interesting of this level for a long time.


An excellent illustration is the GTX 1650 in the ITX version, which turned out to be almost a quarter shorter than the reference board. At the same time, its core and memory are slightly overclocked "out of the box", the temperature regime does not exceed the norm, a single cooler is cooled passively and almost silently in idle time. Against the background of the next generation and the total shortage of video cards, which began at the end of 2020, such a graphics card perfectly "pulls" modern games in 1080p and medium graphics settings. Only selected projects of the caliber of Red Dead Redemption 2 and Metro Exodus can drop the frame counter per second to 40 – 45 FPS.

Due to the modest cooling system, additional features and space for overclocking are not as rich as full-size graphics cards based on the same core. However, the combination of price, performance and dimensions makes them practically no alternative options for people who dream of assembling a quiet, compact and at the same time relatively performant computer. It is also a great option for HTPC systems that offer to use a computer as a home theater.